A masked Belgian policeman secures the area from a rooftop near the scene where shots were fired during a police search of a house in the suburb of Forest near Brussels, Belgium, March 15, 2016.

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MatthiasVerbergt

LaurenceNorman

BRUSSELS — Four police officers were injured and one suspect killed in a series of skirmishes on Tuesday as Belgian and French authorities conducted an investigation into the November Paris terror attacks, Belgian authorities said.

An exchange of gunfire left one suspect, found armed with an assault rifle, dead, the Belgian federal prosecutor announced. Authorities said one or more people involved in the skirmishes remained at large and the hunt continued.

The incidents occurred near Place Saint-Denis, a mixed neighborhood where some Muslim immigrants have made their home in the southern Brussels district of Forest.

Three officers were slightly injured in an exchange of gunfire after forcing their way into an apartment at about 3 p.m., federal prosecutors said. In another exchange of gunfire, a fourth police officer was wounded.

Around 6:15 p.m., a special unit that had been called in killed a suspect armed with an AK-47-style assault rifle, prosecutors said.

“We have been very lucky,” said Belgian Prime Minister Charles Michel. “We note that four of our police officers have been slightly injured. This could have been a tragedy.”

A spokesman for Belgium’s interior minister said the raid was linked to the Nov. 13 Paris attacks, in which 130 people were killed within a few hours in several locations with assault rifles and suicide bombs.

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